" His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington ; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons.

Chaplin spent five months on his next film, the two-reeler The Idle Class.

Chaplin was markedly unhappy with the marriage, and spent long hours at the studio to avoid seeing his wife.

In 1998, Chaplin also received a statue in Waterville, Ireland, where he spent several summers with his family in the 1960s.

Eisenstein and his entourage spent considerable time with Charlie Chaplin, who recommended that Eisenstein meet with a sympathetic benefactor in the person of American socialist author Upton Sinclair.

It is housed in the old workhouse where Charlie Chaplin spent time as a child.

At the age of sixteen, he abandoned his university entrance examinations part way through and moved to London, where he spent some years in the City of London with Mr. Chaplin, the agent of his father's company.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

The comic actor Charlie Chaplin, who spent some time with his mother in Lambeth workhouse, records in his autobiography that when he and his half-brother returned to the workhouse after having been sent to a school in Hanwell, he was met at the gate by his mother Hannah, dressed in her own clothes.

* 1896 A 7 year old Charlie Chaplin spent a day playing in the park after his mother discharged the family from the Lambeth Workhouse in desperation to see her children.

The two had few interests in common, and Chaplin spent as much time as he could away from home, working on The Gold Rush ( in which Grey was to have played the female lead ) and later The Circus.

" For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother were sent to live with their father, whom the young boy scarcely knew.

The surprise preview showing in Los Angeles was not a success, and Chaplin left the movie theatre " with a feeling of two years ' work and two million dollars having gone down the drain.

In the last two decades of his career, Chaplin concentrated increasingly on re-editing and scoring his old films for re-release.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

In 2011 two murals depicting Chaplin on two 14-storey buildings were also unveiled in Vevey.

Chaplin also received three Academy Awards, one competitive award for Best Original Score, and two Honorary Awards, and was nominated for three more:

Its two leads, Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom, were in the industry in no less than three different centuries.

However, Annette Insdorf, in her book Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust, writes that " There was something curiously appropriate about the little tramp impersonating the dictator, for by 1939 Hitler and Chaplin were perhaps the two most famous men in the world.

In July and August Chaplin finished up six weeks of smaller scenes for the film, including the two scenes of the Tramp being harrassed by newsboys, one of which was played by a young

Discussing the making of the film in the documentary series Unknown Chaplin, Hale revealed that she had idolized Chaplin since childhood and that the final scene of the original version, in which the two kiss, reflected the state of their relationship by that time ( Chaplin's marriage to Lita Grey having collapsed during production of the film ).

For two years Chaplin worked in the strike committee with Mother Jones for the bloody Kanawha County, West Virginia strike of coal miners in 1912-13.

On February 16, 1951, two lawyers-turned-producers Arthur Krim ( of Eagle-Lion Films ) and Robert Benjamin approached Pickford and Chaplin with a wild idea: let them take over United Artists for five years.

The coloured ( not black ) band Flames also gained a following, and soon contributed two members ( Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar ) to American band The Beach Boys.

She went on to appear in two more films: The Sea Gull, also known as A Woman of the Sea — which Chaplin never released — and Education de Prince, a French film released in 1927, just before she retired as an actress.

She has been credited as an extra in Chaplin's final two American movies, Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight ; Chaplin kept her on his payroll until her death.

Chaplin used not one, but two similar-looking characters to the Tramp in The Great Dictator ( released October 15, 1940 ); however, this was an all-talking film ( Chaplin's first ).

In Hollywood, Waugh enjoyed meeting Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney (" the two artists of the place ") but complained about the accommodations, the quality of food and the lack of wine at meals, the relaxed dress and informal manners, and the small talk of service workers-" the exact opposite of the English custom by which the upper classes are expected to ask personal questions of the lower ".

In fact Charlie Chaplin took credit for penning the line, " In two words: im-possible "; and the quote, " the next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself ," has also been attributed to Michael Curtiz.

Charlie Chaplin filmed scenes for at least two movies in the park including A Jitney Elopement and In the Park, both from 1915.

She married Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole in 1962 with whom she had two sons and two daughters, however their marriage was ultimately dissolved in 1979, and she married Michael Chaplin in 1984.

His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

Because of this poverty, Chaplin was sent to a workhouse at seven years old.

It was an isolated performance, but at nine years old Chaplin became interested in the theatre.

She went on to appear in 35 films with Chaplin over eight years.

A contract was negotiated with Mutual that amounted to $ 670, 000 a year, making Chaplin — at 26 years old — one of the highest paid people in the world.

For The Pawnshop he recruited the actor Henry Bergman, who was to work with Chaplin for 30 years.

Later in life, Chaplin referred to his Mutual years as " the happiest period of my career.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

Chaplin appeared in 82 films throughout his 53 years in the industry.

For the first time in many years, German audiences had free access to cinema from around the world and in this period the films of Charlie Chaplin remained popular, as were melodramas from the United States.

It was in these early years that Remi developed a love of cinema, particularly favouring Windsor McCay's pioneering animated film Gertie the Dinosaur and the films featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton ; his later work in the comic strip medium would display an obvious influence from these early films in style and content.

When Charlie Chaplin finally allowed the world to hear his voice after twenty years of pantomime, he chose CBS air to do it on

Chaplin's film followed only a few months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject You Nazty Spy by the Three Stooges, although Chaplin had been planning it for years before.

Twenty years later, as the amnesiac private is released from the hospital, Adenoid Hynkel ( also played by Chaplin ), the ruthless dictator of Tomainia, has undertaken to persecute Jews throughout the land, aided by Minister of the Interior Garbitsch ( Henry Daniell ) and Minister of War Herring ( Billy Gilbert ).

Apparently neither the suing party nor Chaplin himself brought up his own brother's King, Queen, Joker of twenty years before.

However, Turner Classic Movies says that years later, Chaplin acknowledged a connection between the barber and The Tramp.

Chaplin was dismissive about " talkies " and told a reporter that he'd " give the talkies three years, that's all.

Charlie ( who reveals his full name to be Charlie Chaplin, another anachronism because the movie is actually set 2 years prior to Chaplin's birth ) breaks them out, and they go to Queen Victoria's Jubilee Ball, where the Royal Family will be.

In the early years of film, David Raksin worked as music ghostwriter and orchestrator for Charlie Chaplin ; even though Chaplin was credited as the score writer, he was considered to be a " hummer " ( pejorative film industry slang for a person who purports to be a film score composer but who in fact only gives a general idea of the melodies to a ghostwriter ).